Julie Wurgler lugged a giant guitar case to the front of the McKinley Room at the Stark County District Library, then plopped it on the table in front of auctioneer David Morris.

She stood, eagerly awaiting, as he examined its contents.

Morris cradled the guitar in his hands, looking it up and down.

“Wow ... awesome,” he whispered. “Old, old, old.

“You have the amp, too?” he asked.

She nodded and said yes.

The amplifier alone is probably worth $1,500, he told Wurgler. Her eyes widened, as a smile creased her lips. The 1950s-era electric guitar, a Rickenbacker, is worth another $3,500.

Not bad for a guitar that her son was playing in the Greenwood Christian Church band. One of the church members told her he shouldn’t be playing it — that it was an antique that needed to be appraised.

“That’s when I first had an idea it was worth something,” said the East Canton woman, whose son inherited it from her grandfather.

The advice brought her to the fifth annual antiques appraisal show at the downtown library. In all, more than 200 people carted items into the four-hour event for a free appraisal by Morris, a certified appraiser and auctioneer, and Jeff Markham, a local antiques dealer.

It’s the library’s own version of the PBS TV show “Antiques Roadshow,” now in its 17th season.

Visitors showed up with boxes, bags and arms full of goodies, including quilts, figurines, lamps, an autographed baseball, paintings, bottles, jewelry, watches and a steel fishing rod.

Many items were worth hundreds, even thousands of dollars, they learned. Other pieces, though, were worth next to nothing, especially mass-produced paintings, which can appear older and more unique than they really are.

Some plan to sell and wanted to get an idea on an asking price; others were just curious.

Among the unique pieces: A centuries-old book titled “Fabyan Chronicles,” for which Nick Moorhead of Canton paid $500 at an auction, then found it’s worth four times that; an early-1900s piece of painted circus-tent canvas valued at $1,500; a charcoal-and-pencil drawing by Henry Bacon worth $3,500; and a 1930s children’s riding horse owned by Marcia Craw of New Philadelphia.

Craw’s dad bought it for her, used, for Christmas in 1941, when she was only 2 years old. All her nieces and nephews played on it and rode it over the years. Now, the horse is retired.